Owens, Steven G.
(2013)
EXPLORATION OF THIOPHENE-BASED DONOR-DONOR AND DONOR-ACCEPTOR CONJUGATED OLIGOMERS.
Master's Thesis, University of Pittsburgh.
(Unpublished)
Abstract
Conjugated polymers are one of the leading technologies in electronic materials research. In this work we investigate thiophene-based donor-donor (D-D) and donor-acceptor (D-A) conjugated oligomers for future application towards polymer solar cells (PSCs).
Beginning from computational studies, our group targets specific monomers that show promise in both bandgap and solar cell efficiency. For this research, we have found a novel alkyl-nitrothiophene (2-bromo-5-cyano-3-hexyl-4-nitrothiophene, NT) monomer as well as a unique D-D combination of propylenedioxythiophene (ProDOT) and isothianapthene (ITN). In both of these cases, we found that we can tune the tetramer bandgap (in both D-D and D-A systems) simply by changing the order of monomers (rather than changing the identity of the monomers). Horner-Wadsworth-Emmons (HWE) was chosen to provide the ability to individually couple monomers, allowing us to synthesize sequenced oligomers.
The synthesis of the novel alkyl-NT monomer was successful and progress towards additional monomers necessary for HWE coupling was made. A test Stille coupling towards the synthesis of the ProDOT-ITN oligomer was also attempted.
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University of Pittsburgh ETD
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
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| Creators | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Owens, Steven G. | sgo7@pitt.edu | SGO7 | |
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| Date: |
26 September 2013 |
| Date Type: |
Publication |
| Defense Date: |
12 August 2013 |
| Approval Date: |
26 September 2013 |
| Submission Date: |
15 August 2013 |
| Access Restriction: |
1 year -- Restrict access to University of Pittsburgh for a period of 1 year. |
| Number of Pages: |
34 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences > Chemistry |
| Degree: |
MS - Master of Science |
| Thesis Type: |
Master's Thesis |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: |
thiophene D-A D-D "donor-acceptor" "donor-donor" "conjugated oligomer" "electronic materials" OPV PSC "organic photovoltaic" "polymer solar cell" |
| Date Deposited: |
27 Sep 2013 00:29 |
| Last Modified: |
15 Nov 2016 14:14 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/19610 |
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